John Pilger Movies

How can a country survive when its jungle borders hold 4000 hostile troops?

“On the surface, everything appears serene... But Burma is also a secret country, isolated for the past 34 years since a brutal dictatorship...

In 1974, when famine hit the country, Pilger returned to Bangladesh to make An Unfashionable Tragedy. It contains harrowing scenes of starving...

In 1975, John Pilger reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon, where the last American troops fled from the roof-top...

Alabama governor George Wallace made his name as a segregationist remembered for standing “in the schoolhouse door” of the University of...

1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia.

John Pilger returns to Vietnam in 1974. America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the international community.

1983. The worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race is scrutinised.

In the first of a trilogy of documentaries made in the United States, John Pilger reveals American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s policy...

John Pilger’s first documentary on the aftermath of the Vietnam War, To Know Us Is to Love Us, features a caring, humane American community in...

Children growing up in poverty is the subject of Smashing Kids, 1975. John Pilger meets the Hopwoods, of Liverpool, where hunger has become a way of...

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

The potential dangers of nuclear weapons and the planned new breed of plutonium-fuelled reactors are the subject of An Unjustifiable Risk, made in...

Shortly after his 1977 Daily Mirror reports on dissidents in the Soviet Union, John Pilger entered Czechoslovakia undercover to film A Faraway...

This film expresses John Pilger’s belief that working people are seldom allowed a place in an essentially bourgeois media on their own...

Documentary from 1975 on the plight of mentally handicapped children held in appalling circumstances in the UK.

1989. An examination of how the UN protected and revitalised the Khmer Rouge.

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

1990. The plight of a people who have struggled to rebuild their stricken country.